"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become."

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W. H. Auden

#Music Quotes #Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience; you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other”
“In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.”

Source : Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds: Illustrated with numerous engravings. (2 Thle in 1 vol.). I”, p.7
“The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.”

Source : "Angelmaker". Book by Nick Harkaway, February 2, 2012.
“Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will.”
“Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.”

Source : Shannon Hale (2010). “Princess Academy”, p.57, A&C Black
“A startup is aÂ temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.”
“For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.”
“Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.”

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